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BARRYTOWN Lyrics

Artist: Steely Dan
Album: Pretzel Logic

I'm not one to look behind I know that times must changeBut over there in Barrytown they do things very strangeAnd though you're not my enemyI like things like they used to beAnd though you'd like some companyI'm standing by myselfGo play with someone elseI can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown

Don't believe I'm taken in by stories I have heardI just read the Daily News and swear by every wordAnd don't think that I'm out of lineFor speaking out for what is mineI'd like to see you do just fineBut look at what you wearAnd the way you cut your hair

I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown

In the beginning we recall that the word was hurledBarrytown people got to be from another world

Leave me or I'll be just like the others you will meetThey won't act as kindly if they see you on the streetAnd don't you scream or make a shoutIt's nothing you can do aboutIt was there where you came outIt's a special lack of graceI can see it in your face

I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown

Comments/Interpretations

by Brian Sumpter on 2/7/2009 1:47pmHe's describing the old fuddy's that fell treatened by the hippies. Little did he know at the time, that in 2009, we would live in "Barrytown"! What a true prophet Donald is!

by King Hussein on 8/28/2009 9:55pm"It's a special lack of graceI can see it in your face"

Sounds like the bitter little boys and girls of the new O'Barrytown.

by Mikey in L.A. on 7/12/2010 6:28pmIt's about Barrytown N.Y. A town near Bard where Becker and Fagen met. Big influx of 'Moonies' in Barrytown, this song is about the intolerance of shallow people.